Bambusa rutila McClure

The culms are used for poles and scaffolding, and the young shoots are edible.

Culms 8–12 m, 4–6 cm in diam., basally slightly flexuose, apically slightly drooping; internodes 30–35 cm; wall thick; lower internodes usually initially densely stiffly dark brown strigose, basal internodes sometimes with several inconspicuous pale yellow stripes; nodes with a ring of gray-white silky hairs below and above sheath scar and a ring of stiff, brown hairs on sheath scar, several basal nodes usually with short aerial roots; branching from 3rd or 4th node up. Branches usually 3–12 on mid-culm and basal nodes; central 3 dominant, reflexed; those on lower nodes usually with branchlets specialized into weak or tough thorns. Culm sheaths tardily deciduous, ribbed-striate when dry, glabrous or with stiff, dark brown hairs near margins and base, apex slightly oblique and truncate; auricles extremely unequal, abaxially densely hispidulous; larger auricle ovate-oblong, oblong, or narrowly reniform, inflated outward, undulate, wrinkled, ca. 1.5 cm wide; smaller auricle subovate or elliptic, ca. 1 cm wide, undulate, wrinkled; ligule 4–5 mm, dentate, fimbriate; blade persistent, erect, subtriangular or ovate, base nearly 2/5 as wide as sheath apex. Leaf blade linear-lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, usually 10–18 × 1–1.7 cm, abaxially densely pubescent, adaxially glabrous. Pseudospikelets linear-lanceolate, compressed, to 3 cm; prophylls obtuse at apex, keels ciliolate; gemmiferous bracts 3–8, ovate, 1–4 mm, margins ciliolate or subglabrous near apex, apex obtuse and finely tipped; florets ca. 9, apical 1 or 2 florets sterile; rachilla segments 2–3 mm, apex ciliolate. Glumes absent; lemma ovate-lanceolate, to 8 mm, abaxially glabrous, many veined, margins ciliolate near apex, finely tipped, apex obtuse or acute and scabrous; palea longer or shorter than lemma, keels ciliate or scabrous at apex, 2- or 3-veined between keels, apex penicillate; lodicules 3, subequal, ovate or obovate, margins ciliate. Anther obtuse at apex. Ovary obovoid, apex thickened and hairy; style very short; stigmas 3, scabrid. Fl. Oct–Dec.

* Open fields, around villages. Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan.

Bambusa shuangliuensis T. P. Yi.

Bambusa rutila là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Hòa thảo. Loài này được McClure mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1940.

木竹（学名：Bambusa rutila）为禾本科簕竹属下的一个种。